A Banning man has been charged with murder in connection with the fentanyl poisoning death of a missing 15-year-old girl. The case started on the night of January 14, 23, that’s when deputies found the body of the 15-year-old on the 12400 block of Dailey Road in Banning. According to the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office,
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Update 6/30/23 The Riverside County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the victim was a minor who was found with several gunshot wounds after a car-to-car shooting. The minor was behind the wheel of a silver Honda Civic that crashed as a result of the shooting. He was flown to a local trauma center where he is currently
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Two teens were arrested after a shots fired call Thursday night near Village Fest in downtown Palm Springs. Palm Springs Police PIO Tamara Wadkins told News Channel 3 that around 10:30 p.m. officers working Village Fest heard in the area of E. Tahquitz Canyon Drive and South Belardo Road.Police later learned that a car was
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A Perris man was arrested after a traffic stop in Yucca Valley when police found he was driving a teenage runaway from Colorado. He was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault of a minor. The arrest happened on May 28 at the intersection of Twentynine Palms Highway and Prescott Avenue. The California Highway Patrol
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A probationer and his girlfriend accused of exposing their three children to fentanyl, causing one to suffer a medical emergency, are slated to appear for a preliminary hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice later this month to determine whether the charges against them are justified. Kamron Charles Sanders, 31, Joshulyn Denise Penniman, 29, both of
Continue Reading A 31-year-old Yucca Valley man was arrested after his three-month-old baby was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries. The investigation began on May 24, that’s when the three-month-old infant was airlifted to Loma Linda University Medical Center Pediatric Intensive Care Unit with life-threatening injuries consistent with child abuse. Investigators from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department, Crimes
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A teen was arrested today on suspicion of threatening to shoot students at Cathedral City High School. Police received a tip at around 6:30 a.m. Friday about an unidentified 16-year-old Cathedral City resident threatening to shoot students at the high school at 69250 Dinah Shore Drive, according to Sgt. Nate Hanley of the Cathedral City
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Barricades closing North Indian Canyon Road to traffic didn’t stop two drivers who both rolled vehicles on a large sand berm in separate crashes, Palm Springs Police tell News Channel 3. Police say just before 2:00 a.m. Tuesday, a Palm Springs Police officer saw two vehicles pass him “at a high rate of speed, crashing
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Defense testimony is slated to begin tomorrow in the trial of a felon accused of killing his infant daughter in a high-speed crash on the south end of Palm Desert. Marcus Novell Green, 58, of Thermal, is charged with second-degree murder, child cruelty and a sentence-enhancing great bodily injury allegation for the June 2016 death
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A mother and her son are recovering in the hospital after being shot while confronting a teen robbery suspect near Bagdouma Park in Coachella Monday afternoon. “We was inside when we heard some shootings, you know shootings, and then, loud and we went outside,” said Zila Duran, a Coachella resident. Duran recounts the terrifying moments
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A 32-year-old Oregon man who traveled to Riverside County for a dalliance with a Banning girl pleaded guilty today to contacting a minor for illicit purposes. Devon Richard Decerto of Gresham, Oregon, admitted the felony count under a plea agreement with the District Attorney’s Office. In exchange for his admission, prosecutors agreed to drop a
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A 34-year-old man who shot at multiple victims, including a 7-year-old child, in an unincorporated area of Riverside County near Sky Valley pleaded guilty to felony charges today and was immediately sentenced to more than six-and-a-half years in state prison. Ryan David Sargent of Cathedral City pleaded guilty Tuesday at the Larson Justice Center
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A 25-year-old Corona man suspected of leaving a La Quinta Middle School with a 12-year-old girl he had allegedly been communicating with via social media pleaded not guilty to felony charges today. Joshua Meza was charged with six felony counts of committing a lewd act with a child under 14 and one felony count each
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A former Los Angeles Police Department officer who was charged with committing lewd acts on four young boys at his Covina-area home has died while in custody, officials said today. Sheriff’s department officials said only that Paul Razo, 46, died of medical complications, but no further information was released. Razo was arrested May 10,
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Authorities are searching for a Desert Hot Springs man wanted for allegedly supplying the fentanyl that led to the death of a 17-year-old girl in 2022. Michael Garcia, 22, was identified as the suspect in the fentanyl poisoning of a 17-year-old girl in an unincorporated area near Desert Hot Spring in August 2022, the Riverside
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A 24-year-old man who stole a cell phone from a 17-year-old boy at gunpoint in Coachella pleaded guilty to robbery today and was immediately sentenced to 12 years in prison. Miguel Martinez Navarro of Coachella pleaded guilty to the charge and admitted to a sentence-enhancement of using a firearm Tuesday at the Larson Justice Center
Continue Reading A jury was seated today for the trial of a convicted felon accused of killing his infant daughter in a high-speed crash on the south end of Palm Desert. Marcus Novell Green, 58, of Thermal is charged with second-degree murder, child cruelty and a sentence-enhancing great bodily injury allegation for the June 2016 death of
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Jury selection began today in the trial of a felon accused of killing his infant daughter in a high-speed crash on the south end of Palm Desert. Marcus Novell Green, 58, of Thermal, is charged with second-degree murder, child cruelty and a sentence-enhancing great bodily injury allegation for the June 2016 death of 5-month-old Armani
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A 34-year-old man who allegedly shot at multiple victims, including a 7-year-old child, in an unincorporated area of Riverside County near Sky Valley pleaded not guilty to felony charges today. Ryan David Sargent of Cathedral City was charged with one felony count each of assault with a gun, willful child cruelty, being a convicted felon
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A 32-year-old Norco woman accused of abusing and allowing her 17-month-old child to ingest fentanyl, causing the toddler’s death, was charged today with second-degree murder and other offenses. Jennifer Johanna Allen was arrested Tuesday following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation at her residence in the 100 block of Eighth Street. Along with murder, Allen
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